Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers (U California Press, 2023) centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and…
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, Stephen Davies’s Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are (Bloomsbury, 2020) takes in…
I bid my farewell and thanks to Yokohama and took a train to Monzen Nakacho in Tokyo. I walked past Daruma on my way to the hotel, and…
Our monthly colloquium resumes this May. See our dates below! These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum…
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier for starting a new position as a professor for social and cultural anthropology, focus East Asia/China at Friedrich-Alexander Universität E…
Die Regionalgruppe China(s) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie setzt sich aus Forschenden der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie sowie der Sinologie zusammen, die mit qualitat…
This was a very welcome intervention (two years back, but I just found it now). https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/67465334/Bataille_s_Anti_fascism-libre.pdf?1622374503=&response-con…
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic…
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
Quinoa’s new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru…
BONUS VIDEO! (a shop in Yokohama in Japan plays a melody of western Christmas carols…) SEE ALSO! “Yokohama Chinatown: Selected Shots” on VAoJ, 9/1/19: https://visu…
This was my second trip to Yokohama. The first in 2019 was only an afternoon in Chinatown. This time I thought exploring the bay area would be good.…
2023 inleddes med en turbulent vår, lokalt likväl som globalt, vilket på olika sätt har varit utmanande för många. Att få återkomma till Antroperspektiv för att ta del…
Allegra Editor Ian podcasts together with Thread guest editors Aja Smith & Anne Line Dalsgård as they explore ‘Building Bodies For Thought a thread in which theorising and…
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the…
Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia.…
Would you like to work with ethnographic film and visual anthropology, and move to beautiful Tromsø in the Arctic? Then read on and apply before the deadline: August…
I finally have some good news to share about the Shaligram interpretive guide that I know so many of you have been asking me about for the past…
An archaeologist and Lakota genomics scientist explain how combining archaeology, DNA, and Indigenous knowledge can help revise colonial human-horse narratives largely associated with the western U.S….
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I had spent the last…
My idea was to check out the Yokohama Bay area. So I took the train to Yokohama Station and then walked a long distance to the Sea Bass…
Deponie. /depoˈniː/ noun. (German for ‘landfill, dumpsite’) To put down, to place, to hand over, to trash; or, to otherwise find some new purpose for. Freude. /ˈfʁɔʏ̯də/ noun.…
Joel Palmer was an extremely busy man in 1856. In the midst of traveling back and forth across Oregon, he was ordering supplies, directing employees, and negotiating with…
Feminist theorizing – particularly contributions from beyond the Global North – has always been marginalized in anthropology although it has successfully challenged hegemonic knowledge production as w…